Moveable Feast Cafe 2018/04/03 … Open Thread

2018/04/03 00:30:01Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of the issues of the day.

“The F-22, though, was designed during the mid-1980s as a pure air superiority fighter. The Raptor’s Intra-Flight Data Link (IFDL) is compatible with F-15 Eagles and other older aircraft, but the F-35’s Tactical 16 Link communication system is not fully interoperable with IFDL.

According to Bloomberg, the Raptor’s communications set up can accept data from the F-35, F-16, and Eurofighter, but it cannot relay a single bit of the swaths of situational data back to the other aircraft.

For now, the pilots have adopted a secure voice link as a temporary measure, but the F-22 is not slated to get the Tactical Link 16 upgrade until 2023. According to Billie Flynn, a former Royal Canadian Air Force squadron commander who now works as an F-35 test pilot for Lockheed Martin, the temporary solution has been adequate during training and simulated combat.

KEMEROVO, April 2. /TASS/. New witnesses have appeared in the case of the blaze that struck the Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall in Kemerovo, said Sergei Menyailo, Russian Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Siberian Federal District, on Monday.

“We are disclosing anything and everything [to the public] that can be divulged and even more than that. I talked to the Investigative Committee today, and additional witnesses have been found. [The Investigative Committee] will bring you everything that can be disclosed, so that there aren’t two ways to explaining [anything], whether they closed the door or not and so on. Nevertheless, the investigation still has the dimension of secrecy,” the plenipotentiary representative said.

A fire has broken out in the residential complex “Panorama Sochi”- 50 people have been evacuated, among them 15 children. There are no dead or injured. The fire is thought to have started on the third floor and went upwards.

MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. A private security contractor known as ‘Protection Center’ that worked in the Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall in Kemerovo illegally undertook additional obligations on fire protection, Chief Expert at the Main Directorate for Licensing of the Federal National Guard Troops Service Svetlana Ternova told reporters on Tuesday.
This occurred before the deadly March 25 fire, she said.

“The specified security organization undertook obligations on fire prevention measures in the facility and even in the fifty-meter zone around it under contract for providing private security services. I want to highlight that private security organizations are established only for providing security services. Fire prevention measures are not services provided by security organizations,” Ternova stressed.
She emphasized that the security contractor had neither experts nor equipment for carrying out preventive firefighting measures.

Head of the Main Directorate for State Control and Licensing of the Federal National Guard Troops Service Leonid Vedenov said that “By all parameters the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping mall fell under the provisions of the law ‘On Countering Terrorism’: it had an anti-terrorism security certificate and, under the security requirements for such facilities, the security contractor had to fulfil certain requirements. It lacked a specific activity that had to be named in the license, and this type of activity in itself should be carried out only if there are weapons. The specified security organization had neither the corresponding type of activity in the license, nor the right to carry weapons.”

MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. Firefighters and emergency workers who participated in the operation to combat the Zhimnaya Vishnya shopping mall fire in the Siberian city of Kemerovo completely fulfilled their duty, Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov told TASS.

“Firefighters and emergency workers who combatted the Zimnyaya Vishnya fire, completely fulfilled their duty without the slightest thought about their own safety,” said Puchkov, who coordinated the activities of firefighters and emergency workers at the fire site and later held numerous meetings with the family members of the fire victims. “The fire spread very quickly, engulfing 1,500 square meters, the firefighters hardly had time to retreat. There was a risk that the walls will come down and bury emergency workers and firefighters,” the minister added.

More than 4.5 thousand people were evacuated on Tuesday afternoon from the shopping mall “Afimoll-City” in the center of Moscow after the fire alarm sounded, a source in the emergency services of the capital told Sputnik.

On Saturday awards were presented to the Kemerovo residents who rescued people during the fire. Among those awarded with a medal for “Valor and courage” was an employee of the mall, 21-year-old Alexander Kalachev.
“Alexander is yet to finish his studies and serve in the army, after which we we are happy to invite him to Rosgvardia, we need such people, ” reads the message from the regional administration.
“Alexander worked on the 3rd floor and could easily have run outside, but instead he ran to the fourth floor and brought several families out of the fire zone,” the Kuzbass Rosgvardia specified.

Italian politicians are ‘outraged’ at this violating of agreed protocols. ‘We are not Macron’ s toilet ‘ fumes one. (No, you are someone else’s’ toilet ‘…)

Meanwhile Netanyahu has said the removal of migrants from Israel – mostly single men of military age – will ‘immeasurably improve’ the neighbourhoods of Tel Aviv. (And what will it do to the neighbourhoods of the accepting countries? Thundering silence…)

The original plan to deport them to Rwanda and Uganda was scrapped following a high court ruling that Uganda would have to bear the full welfare costs of the migration, and pressure to refuse from other African states (and where are the usual protests about ‘racism’ from the open borders crowd? Nowhere to be heard… After all, how do you paint anti – migration policy as racist when the refusing countries are also of the same race?)

I guess these migrants are likely former recruits of the Mossad and other security agencies who are now tasked with what to do with them following failed insurgencies in Syria and elsewhere…

“Don’t worry babe, soon I will retire,
My time, spent in the pub, is coming to the end
You know, I’m getting old, slow, weak and tired
Too much spent, embracing the bottle as friend,
Too much dancing, too much meddle,
Meanwhile, playing cards on table,
Thinking I’m King, shaking on the swing,
Pouring the madness in glasses full of sadness
Flying with vultures, flying on their wings.

Don’t worry babe, soon I will retire,
My days are coming to an end, the veil will fall
I called for brothers, hawks and many more
To keep the spirits in a growing wake of war
There’s much to tell, and many have already told
About the power, struggle and the gold
When out there, is getting nasty and bold.
Release me if you can, forgive my harshest words,
Forget me if you can, cause I praise,
the earthly lords

Serving the devil instead of serving God
We took the steps of Judas, taking part in plots,
I’m not alone, the scripts have been already done
By those in deep, with justice under their feet
And there are many more, rotted to their core
Masters of the gold, Masters of the World ”

But it’s not me, who’s writing down these lines,
It is the every king, which we alone elected
And then, in our daily lives projected :
Speaking you of peace, giving you a Judas kiss
Speaking you of bread, promising yet more
Promising the Moon and Sun, (what you may miss)
Talking you of beauty and giving a free fall.

And then, he’ll say :
” Don’t worry babe, soon I will retire
But not before the world will burn in hellish fire
In the fire of the spirit, in the fire of the flesh,
In the fire of the gold, in the fire of the clash,
The East and West, the North and South
Have always feared to talk about “

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian parliament’s lower house, the State Duma, adopted a statement, claiming that Riga’s decision to transfer the schools of national minorities to the Latvian language of teaching was unacceptable and proposing to introduce special economic measures against Latvia.

Yes, of course you can amarynth, this site is such a great common treasure for all of us here. If you have any ideas and I can do something, please let me know. As already told in January, we will have a new calendar for the next year, the basis is already in my mind. Kent, you are a valuable partner, many thanks for your work and contributions, which, I’m sure will continue in the future to make this community prosper and feel good. I never forget that we are adding always something, little by little to have a better world.

Thanks Ioan!
When the new site is live, you can take a look and decide if there is something to do. We will be a support site to all of the initiatives here. Just a few more days and we open the doors.

Do the Russian elites allow for these same things? Don’t illegal drugs flow freely through Eurasia to Russia? Aren’t millions of semi-literate, uneducated, unskilled people wandering into Russia from Eurasia? Does Russia outsource manufacturing as well?

Yakov Kedmi is a former head of the Israeli intelligence agency “Nativ”. He often appears on Russian TV to talk on global political issues. This is a fragment of his appearance on the “Evening with Solovyov” program.”

Well, now we know where all that Putin is weak, soft, incompetent, etc. nonsense originates from… ;-)

THE HAGUE, April 3. /TASS/. The Joint Investigation Team looking into the downing of flight MH17 has come to the conclusion that the missile which downed the aircraft could have been invisible for Russian radars, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said in a statement on Tuesday.

“The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that investigates the downing of flight MH17 had two independent radar experts examine the radar images provided by the Russian Federation,” the statement reads. “The findings by these radar experts show that a BUK-missile could have been fired from the firing location established by the JIT without it being visible on the radar images. Furthermore, the radar experts confirm that no other aircraft near MH17 are visible on the radar images provided,” the Prosecution Service added.

According to the experts, “an important explanation of the absence of the BUK-missile on the radar images lies in the flight properties of a BUK-missile.” “An example of such a flight property is the speed of the missile. Because of the fact that this speed is much higher than the speed of civil aircraft, the settings of a civil radar station will ensure that such fast objects generally are not visible on the radar images. This is to prevent ‘clutter’ on the radar image,” the experts added.

Look at this picture, this is happening now, in this moment, the stock exchange introduction of a Swedish company, Spotify, and the Wall Street hanging out of the swiss flag instead of the Swedish. clearer proof that money does not mean inteligens knowledge rather stupidity, arrogance, ignorance, Go USA!

“Ezra on March 27, 2018 · at 10:39 am UTC
I could have placed about $90-$100 per month at the disposal of the Saker blog, if ideological leftists who control it had not wrecked the Saker Community and run out anyone they disagreed with.”

That being said, and forget about the “ideological leftists”, I do actually worry about posters/commenters disappearing from this blog -” Blue”- “Elsie” – “White Whale” – “Helen”, just to mention a few.

What happened??

I know the rules, and accept them. Then again, it is hard/difficult for me to adjust to rules of “Not free speech” when some “invisible” hands decide what is posted/visible. (I do know all the arguments in favor of moderation policy on this blog, and I strongly disagree). WE, as very powerful intellectuals, where some of us analyses very complex Geo-Political/psychological/historical contexts are not allowed to fend of/fight/diminish idiots and bot’s??. You can analyse Evil/the enemy(s) of humanity here, but you are not allowed to fight them?

Does that makes sense?
For me as a warrior, it is a bit boring at times, because there is no one to fight.
Don’t get me wrong. I do sincerely enjoy all of the in depth comments/analysis by various posters (I read them all), BUT, where is the challenge to rebut/confront/discuss opposing views if it’s not there??

In many respects I am a very “simple” individual (like the 10 commandments sort of thing).Not as easy as it sounds, because IMO, if you have strong opinions about ANYTHING, you have to have been there (Maelstroem) and learnt how to swim, experience it from the inside so to speak. Not for the faint at heart individuals, and definitely not for cowards . (the risk of loosing or damaging your soul is real).

I go there. All of the time, Dungeon it is. I have to.

For the armchair warriors here, (not the poets), the ones who post anonymously, however brilliant their analysis/comments are or seem to be. I have no respect whatsoever, disgust even.

Put you face where your mouth is. There is no excuse anymore, NONE!’

I know all the excuses. “I am a VIP who cannot reveal my real identity, or even hint it” – “my career would be jeopardized, my family would suffer etc. etc.”

I don’t give a flying frick about that, Period.

Now is the time, or never. STAND UP!! PLEASE.

Now back to some details that has been nagging me for many month’s.

Scott, please forgive me. I have learned a lot from your corner, your analysis and rants for years. But, ever since your comment on Maria Zacharova as a traitor, based on a low res photograph from her own face book account, anything you write/say/state for my part HAVE to be accompanied by not a bucket, but a barrel of salt, always.
Your “Mojo working” Oracle didn’t help either, nor did your very emotional responses to Elsie.

Well, I agree with your rant, if somebody, then I have asked many times those who are missing to come back, a few have come then went again. I don’t know what happens to these people, maybe they have expected more, for a wonder to happen or for something else they did not told, did not shared. Personally I can’t give up, maybe the patience comes with the age, maybe with the character or both. Maybe many are waiting for events to unfold then suddenly will be back. But, if they expect for a great event, maybe it will be too late to have their say – if the internet will be down. Isn’t this blog a place for all of us who share the same values of truth and justice ? I know, sometimes we get stuck in questions which not for everyone is so important but that doesn’t mean that this is a reason to quit. Some are stubborn, that’s their character and cannot be changed, we are different, not made on a rolling band. The need to find out the truth, a little hope, a light at the end of tunnel, another points of view as seen and felt by someone else in this community – cause the world is round – that’s what is interesting here, the voices, lines, thoughts of others in this world, a lot of treasures which came from nowhere, from everywhere, from somewhere. I do respect everyone’s opinion even if I cannot always comment or reply as I would like to do because of lack of time. We think, we feel, we share, we give, we live – and we learn, a lot ! Even Dennis Leary has good ideas – however boring (some times), and there are different views about economy, bitcoin, left-wing, right-wing ideas, history, religions and many other subjects. All those represent us, in our little time spent on this earth. Shall we break apart, would be better ? Many here have 10, 20, 30 years to live, (me included) why not share their experience for the benefit of others ?
Here we have a wonderful place and we cannot appreciate it’s real value because we are reluctant individualists who are struggling with their egos…that’s funny and in some cases true. Old habits of being always right “just me and no one else” is not a good adviser for someone who is coming to this site. I ask you all, be ,more open in mind and spirit and honestly appreciate what someone else is telling.
If you disagree, try not to be rood because remember, this is an open site, many are reading it and then form an opinion – good of not so good. We’re not in the Heaven yet, we all have faults but we are persevering !

Elsie often posts at Fort Russ, so that’s one ole timer ‘accounted for.’

I think Blue had a few issues facing up to some shibboleths of his own – but I could be wrong. He was always a very interesting poster and one I miss (and worry about, frankly. His circumstances are not the best…)

I think Helen is still floating around but using a different handle – which I shall not ‘reveal’ – it is her decision, not mine. Besides, I don’t care. She’s always worth reading irrespective of what handle she uses.

Kent, I don’t understand your concern about anonymity, everyone is anonymous on this board – ‘Kent’ could be a Nigerian living in Bradford for all I know, not a Dane in Norway.

I don’t know, and I don’t see why it should matter.

The only person who will know our real identities is the Saker, when we donate to him via our bank accounts. And he’s the only one who needs to.

Kent is using his real name, he himself said it here and I can confirm that. I miss also Uncle Bob 1, Straight-Bat, Earthrise, the boys from OZ, bp, Kim,..I know, some of them are using new names,less active in the cafe.

My ip had been blacklisted at the time of the end of ub1 prolific / largely enjoyable postings & only visited infrequently with ipvanish – what happened to him? (I hope it was not health like Kat Kan).

Do you think saker should rescind his expulsion of Martin from SEB?

Do you know anywhere that he now posts? I’d like to catch up with him.

Kent, I only volunteer and work here, I don’t make the policy, so this is a personal comment.

“I know the rules, and accept them. Then again, it is hard/difficult for me to adjust to rules of “Not free speech” when some “invisible” hands decide what is posted/visible. (I do know all the arguments in favor of moderation policy on this blog, and I strongly disagree). WE, as very powerful intellectuals, where some of us analyses very complex Geo-Political/psychological/historical contexts are not allowed to fend of/fight/diminish idiots and bot’s??. You can analyse Evil/the enemy(s) of humanity here, but you are not allowed to fight them?

Does that makes sense?
For me as a warrior, it is a bit boring at times, because there is no one to fight.
Don’t get me wrong. I do sincerely enjoy all of the in depth comments/analysis by various posters (I read them all), BUT, where is the challenge to rebut/confront/discuss opposing views if it’s not there??”

What I do know, is that opposing views are welcomed. And it is not productive to start fighting off or diminish idiots and bots, because the conversation itself will not be able to continue. Online warriorship goes much further by relentlessly exposing the lie, and continuously telling truth, than to try to beat a bot into submission. Armies of idiots will descend on us. Just go and take a look at some of the larger un-moderated sites and the painful quality of the comments there. I cannot bear trying to sift through those for a little pearl somewhere hidden in the mud. Also, TheSaker is probably a target for all kinds of swill and the team will probably have to be increased or doubled, just to deal with sheer junk. I am quite sure that opposing views stated respectfully are always welcomed.

Ask yourself, what is more productive: A Wall of Truth, or a Wall of Swill and Junk that one tries to fight through?

But to your sentiment on a deeply emotional level, all I can say is … “Oh for Sword for Kent!”

* Armies of idiots will descend on us. Just go and take a look at some of the larger un-moderated sites and the painful quality of the comments there*

Exactly , Amarynth.

While I understand where Kent is coming from – and the dangers of echo chambers – there is a concerted online propaganda war.

It’s not like the pre-hostilities Internet, where I fought many a ‘flame war’ with opponents. At least chances are they were real, and the borg (as I now characterise the wall-to-wall propaganda of MSM/Google /Facebook) had not organised as a total disinformation machine.

Now we have political dissent, social opinion and even universal truths (eg men are not women) branded as ‘hate speech’.

No moderation would result in a tsunami of disinformation bots, no – content trolling and fake ‘bun fights’ between sock puppets – all creating a massive strain on the management of the Vineyard.

It wouldn’t be long, given the empires unlimited resources to strangle the vines, leaving a sterile plot of weeds…

Another advantage of quality – control is that when trolls do succeed in ‘infiltration’, they are the ‘top end’: that is good for us, as it forces us to exercise our own vigilance against disinformation instead of having the mods do it for us.

how sad to have to endure disappointments with a self-chosen environment! There are two guys in this café whose email adresses became known somehow and to whom I turned a couple of times or so for some private contributions. One of them answered me every time with some nice words *not* telling me that I am a genius and must rule the world, but that he appreciated hearing more of this or that and that he wished me luck. The other one, whom I expected to either respond „that‘s interesting, I‘ll use it when there is an occasion“, or „ahem, please do not bother me with such stuff anymore“ chose the Orwell option instead: „You don‘t exist (things like you don‘t deserve any answer)“. That‘s ok, isn‘t it? Everybody is taking his pick, and the others take their picks, too.

Yes, Elsi and MSEB are legends, and it‘s good to hear that Elsi found her place somewhere. MSEB, is my bet, uses another nick today and surfs the waves – wherever they may wave. I looked for him at the German Dissident Saker Blog but, alas, found no one… (rest self-censored, distress signal).

I once received a meaningful answer from Serbian Girl, but that was also during the good old, very old times a year or a year and a half ago.

Now, the small print:

„For the armchair warriors here, (not the poets), the ones who post anonymously, however brilliant their analysis/comments are or seem to be. I have no respect whatsoever, disgust even.” And I have no respect for those who are allowed by the censors to write whatever under the same name because they are of the sort that those censors leave alone so that they never have to shun censorship. The Steineschmeissersyndrom, Joschka Fischer and Company.

„Put you face where your mouth is. There is no excuse anymore, NONE!’“ – i.e. tell the censors where they should censor right away without even starting to read. I mean the censors, the Nachhinrichter, not the MODz, who do their job mostly well, and sometimes err (according to the one they „corrected”).

„Now is the time, or never. STAND UP!! PLEASE“. – Norge has a reputation of perhaps being one of the last democratic countries left anywhere (Hi TONE of the Lofotes!), although the Utoya-Breivik-Stoltenberg-NATO saga seems to debunk it. But other countries – the greatest democracies, you know, and I don‘t mean Greece – have or use that reputation, too, in their propaganda leaflets, but eradicate everyone who dares not even to „think differently“, but to think at all. If they have a functioning „Innenkrieg“ (The Protocols) or simply classic (english) spitzel service (and they do, of course), they will find about everyone anyway… but if everyone is so bloody stupid to denounce themselves openly, these specks of shit are officially allowed to use it openly: „This idiot admitted him/herself openly that…“

As for bitcoin – Bro is obviously miles above me and will not even remark this – I found a nice remark in Trece Oko (the small format but otherwise great Serbian funnythings rag) #739, p.16, quoting Kreg Hamilton-Parker, vidovnjak poznat po tome sto je predvideo „bregzit“ i dolazak Donalda Trampa na vlast, kaze da (…) „krajem 2018. i pocetkom 2019. pad evra stvorice veliku paniku – bice razotkrivena prevara oko bitkoina, koji je finansirao terorizam a rat“. Now, this should be commented by Bro, but he is obviously above it and/or too busy drowning us in megabytes of predictions „how great it will be“, the bitcoin anomaly This reminds me of my time as a hack for IBM, where I did not note well enough (police state spitzel style) who exactly did what exactly (& where & when & how) to shit together a pretext to throw me out without any reason given nor any explanation… letting it all look like just one of those things… Ok, in these well-paid IBM days, whose only purpose was to nail me down as an obvious soviet spy because I knew (to some extent) one other language beyond my own plus world pidgin, I heard and memorized a joke not about bitcoin but about IBM: One IBMer and one (in those backward days there was only one choice) girl found each other, decided to marry and did just that. In the morning after, the whole gang of relatives, friends, nassauers, soviet spies and english innenkriegspecialists were extremely curious what on earth had been happening during that night in the young couple‘s dreamy paradise. When, due to their impatience, finally they broke into this sanctuary – what did they behold? In the bed the sleeping bride, and on the .. uh.. bettkante? bedsteads? .. the IBM bridgegroom, still in his nice IBM suit, telling her, a brochure in his hands, How Great It Will Be!

Many times there are comments and articles at Saker’s, named or unnamed. or some sentence thereof striking me particularly, that I continue to think about in different ways and times, over days and without ever commenting in response. Kent’s thoughts above, and the people who come and go, I miss them, but that’s life.

I write lines of a poem in response to the thoughts, comments, or poems of others here, by a mood that grips me concerning politics, science, religion, arts, that also feels as though it echoes or lives in the Cafe and other pages of this blog, that people carry in their thoughts and share and write about.

The Moveable Cafe Bistro and with Limonade and our generous host is marvelous, a convivial, sometimes energetic, every time different place. Every step and word that allows the chance of cracking the wall and breaking down the gulf between the sciences and the arts, helps in weakening the Empire’s war on Russia !

The freedom to do this and expand upon narratives in radial paths from the Cafe to the periphery, with divers, disparate, one off, observations, rants, analysis, comments and more is fabulous.

More Cafe ethos, this time from Moscow 1918, when stormy political discussions were held in dim, smoky light around rickety tables.
From the chapter The Journalists Cafe by Konstantine Paustovsky, Story of a Life :

” … You could meet Andrei Byely there, and the Mensheviks Martov, Brusov and Balmont the blind leader of Moscow’s anarchists, and the writer Shmelev, the actress Roksanova, the poet Agnivtsev and a great many journalists and writers of all ages, views, and characters.
The goodhearted Agnivtsev sang his simple songs. An enormous yellow necktie was wound around his long neck like a bandage, and his wide checked trousers were always full of cigarette burns.
Coffee as bitter as quinine steamed in the little enamel cups. Even saccharine could not cut its bitterness. Frenzied arguments would break out at one table after another, and sometimes through the clamor you could hear the clear crack of someone being slapped in the face.
One handsome but malicious journalist with a died beard was on the receiving end of most of the slaps. He hissed like a snake, and he spread his poison over everyone without exception. The slaps he took represented a real fire risk, since he never removed his pipe from his mouth. Whenever someone struck him, the pipe would fly in the air, shooting sparks out like fireworks over the heads of the other patrons and pouring out shreds of burning tobacco. The smell of scorched cloth would promptly fill the room. Everybody would hurry to put out his burning coat or trousers or tablecloth. The journalist with the died beard would coolly retrieve his pipe, fill it again, light it, and walk out with the comment to all who were listening that he would submit this scandalous incident at once to a comradely court..
“You can go to the devil!” the other patrons would yell after him. “Report it to to a revolutionary court ! Out of here! We’re bored with you ! You provocateur !”

I want to take this time to thank all the folks who post here. I watch the movies, read the poems, think about the astrology ( mundanomaniac, where are you?) skim Dennis L more and more these days but tune in nonetheless, and applaud everyone’s creativity. If we are on this forum, we are people who in one way or another hold a love of the world in our hearts and that is the bottom line.

Greetings from Southern Cal. I was greeted by quite a lively discussion, triggered by Kent; reminds me of the Kent of King Lear fame. I love the liveliness but also amarynthian moderation, and someone who may not know’s encouraging words about this site. Kent’s “Ticking Bomb” link is just what the Empire wants us to fear, but I think it’s equally true the the world is sitting on a ticking Timex where every jump of the second hand is a leprechaun’s leap of love.

I realize that theology is boring to all but theologians; but such boring through the granite of empire is necessary if we are to have a breakthrough to freedom. After this, I will post a long, boring theological exposition in my series of “acts,” designed to make the empire go the way of “Humpty Dumpty had a great fall from off the top of Trump’s high wall, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again.”

I didn’t know that there was a spring fund raising going on, but now that I do, I’m glad I just sent an Easter greeting to Saker with a hundred dollar bill. I sent it by snail mail, quite fitting since I am moving at a snail’s pace with my sore back. My donation is a widow’s mite compared to what is needed, but I hope it acts as a prime the pump catalyst. The recent comments remind me of how valuable this site is, and will be even more so if Saker’s Russia trip could be free and clear of nagging money concerns. Apolonia used to have a sticker on our mirror in Venice, Ca’s Grand Canal bungalow, with the words “Expect a miracle.” Oh, say, a widower sends Saker a million bucks from his widow’s billion dollar estate site, in lieu of a mite. When it happens, keep it secret, lest we be deprived of the joy of giving our mites.

I read an article on the main page by Eric Zeuss on God/gods’ silence regarding Palestine. Saker interpreted Eric to mean church authorities, including Russian Orthodox, not God himself. An updated Theology of God is critical to our success against Empire; hence, I am engaged in untying that Gordian Knot of roses and thorns.

Thanks, Azorka 1861, for the video on the polar bears. It was cute, and relevant for my project of stopping war, ala the Love Army and its ten commandments of love, one of which is to keep free animals free. I love to see animals in the wild like this; it awakens my own free animal spirit. How anyone can even think of putting these creatures in a zoo, much less make them pets, or worse, kill them, is beyond me.

This is but one instance, but the principle holds for all wild animals; and I believe all animals should be free, and heaven forbid, be made pets of humans. I realize I’m a lone wolf, howling in the moonlight, on this issue, but someone has to speak the truth, and I guess it’s up to me. I don’t wish to question anyone’s belief or feelings but only to state my position in the interest of true, tender and tough love, the latter being a “sine qua non” for stopping the empire wars.

This is a seed idea that may not sprout for a thousand years but it has to be sown now. Nobody should get upset because nobody has to change anything. It’s a very complex idea which has everything to do with stopping war. Enough said, lest I ruffle feathers and step on toes, by revealing how the world goes–to the dogs, unless clear specifications are linked to love. After all, the devil is in the details when he’s not riding those obor rails.

I was delighted with Bro’s take on Trump vis a vis Putin and Russia, by throwing the dogs of war a bone but failing to join the pyranhas in Putin’s pool or Russia’s rivers. Putin, Trump and Xi are the new triumvirate who are smart enough to know they are held hostage by the Empire’s evil eye at the top of the bankster pyramid. Better to stand together than hang together, and not to fall fighting each other like the old triumvirate of Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus.

Have a good day and night, until we meet again in this unbounded cafe.

God is said to be the Creator of all that is. In Christianity, he creates through his word: “Let there be light, and there was light; let there be a firmament, and there was a firmament…” etc. Saint John begins his gospel with: “In the beginning was the word…”

This is not the normal way we create; we create by making things out of what is already present, while God creates “ex nihilo,” out of nothing, by speaking things into existence. Our greatest creation is to re-create ourselves through “making love,” a euphemism for “having sex.” Since we already have a sex, a more accurate way of describing our self-creation would be to “have love (for one another), and make another person (baby) who has a sex; in other words, “have love and make sex.”

In the doctrine of the Christian Trinity of Father, Son and Spirit, some kind of supernatural sex is involved that has to do with words: as John puts it: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;” and later with the Incarnation, “the Word became flesh.” The Word is revealed as Christ, while at this point in dogmatic development, nothing is said about a Spirit being part of the Trinity. Jesus sends his spirit to the disciples, and from this and similar statements, the church fathers develop the formal doctrine of the Trinity, which is sanctioned by the Roman Emperor, who chaired the Council of Nicea in 325.

At this time the church also codified the scriptural canon, rejecting many other versions as heresy. The word of the Lord God became the authorization of dogma, ethics and church discipline. Natural sex was left out of church teaching, and was only peripherally considered when dealing with the sacrament of marriage. Obviously, the Father and Son did not have sex with each other to birth the Spirit, who was instead said to “proceed” from the Father and Son, in some kind of supernatural process that was not natural.

Immense amounts of energy were invested by the church fathers to build a new structure of theology that incorporated the old testament teachings of patriarchs and prophets, and the new revelations of Jesus and the apostles. The Fathers had to deal with the culture of the time, which was Greco-Roman and Jewish with a wide variety of other influences. And then, like now, there was the flood of immorality and its ensuing chaotic degeneration, from the emperors like Caligula down to hedonistic carousers.

The Fathers rightly perceived that unrestrained sex was the root of the problem; and they therefore built a system that left sex out. The Trinity is asexual; the Virgin Birth and Incarnation of Jesus is asexual; the Spirit is asexual; Heaven is asexual; Jesus was never married, and therefore could not have sex without being stoned to death; Mary is asexual; Angels are asexual; the Fathers themselves were ascetics, hermits, monastics, celibates and even eunuchs, or like Augustine, converts from debauchery.

The church’s withdrawal from the field of sex in western civilization left a vacuum, filled in by a permissive left and a recidivist right, the former represented by Greek satyrs and nymphs, and the latter by the creed of fathers and bishops. This divide suited the conquerors just fine, since it took the spotlight off them. The empire played one side against the other, a strategy still used today. The state needed to control sex for soldiers, and the church needed to control sex for supporters. People left to themselves in small groups might not need either state or church.

Theologians and fathers could not help but be part of the empire. The emperor chaired the Council of Nicea in 325, when the dogmas and scriptures were codified into law. Augustine called on Roman troops to put heretics down. Sex became male dominance; the fathers went from one extreme to the other: upholding persons as souls but debating whether women had souls, and never thought of questioning the slave system on earth, while teaching that all were free with Christ in heaven, as long as they accepted Christianity.

It was quite a balancing act, with many contradictions and anomalies; all held together with patriarchal power, religious and secular. What was ruled off the table and out of question was natural sex; in fact, it had been buried by patriarchy for 75,000 years, but continued to live underground as a seed that would sprout again. In the meantime, the lack of natural sex produces sexual fetishes of all kinds, from war to wantonness.

The natural sex love community is still present on levels, not restricted to the physical dimension; its fullness on the material-physical plane as been obliterated by patriarchy but it persists in seed form. The true sex community is partly physical; otherwise I could not be aware of it, and communicates itself to me in signs, symbols and intuitive intimations, in between my periods of doubt and discouragement. The other levels I’m talking about are emotional, imaginative, dreamy, mental, voluntary and a sense of the great Order of Justice; to name a few.

The fog of empire covers the land like a black cloud, almost impossible to penetrate, but it can be done with a laser of love. I know that you have your own way: I’m not speaking of you, nor trying to change you, but of myself who I am trying to change, which I’m doing now by way of a renewed theology, which I share in community here, as part of the natural, multi-dimensional greater vineyard commons I’m talking about–since the vineyard itself is founded on Orthodox Theology, and therefore bound to engage a world at war, if theology is to have any relevance at all.

I bring up matters that are discomfiting, challenging and politically incorrect; but so did the Fathers in their time. Any father worth his salt has a mother within him, whom he is bound to serve, lest he become “like a motherless child.” Deeper and higher than father or mother, sister or brother, is the Lover who all of us are. Theologians should be at the forefront of renewing their discipline daily, by seeking new avenues of development for the greater good. Our culture needs to reboot and recharge, and that entails reshaping our language and stories in the image of our original creation in Nature.

None of this is easy since it requires revisiting our primal sex life, and there are so many walls around that idea, they make China’s wall and Trump’s wall look like a paper ribbon. The writing on this cafe wall, warning us to wake up, is so thick the wall itself is leaning like the leaning tower of Pisa, about to collapse. It’s up for grabs whether the world or the wall will fall first; but my comfort is in the words of Jesus, who said: “Heaven and earth will disappear but my words will not vanish,” with all his words boiling down to one: “Love.”

One thing we do know, and that is that something is not working. They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. If what we are doing could fix the problem, it would have done so long ago. That brings us back to the question of God, theology’s main quest. We have a reciprocal relation with God, even the God of Power and Money, which is an anti-God. I have a God acronym: Greatest Of Deductions, because once you infer there is or isn’t a God, a wide array of deductions follow.

If you say God is part of nature, that is one thing; if you say God is separate from nature, that is another. The church teaches that God is supernatural. I think of God as “superbly natural.” However, his naturalness has been co-opted by patriarchy to serve its interests for power and money. Nowhere does that trick show up more glaringly than in sex. God is a Father but a sexless one; he has a Son but a sexless one, conceived by a sexless Spirit in a sexless Virgin.

The gist of this kind of theology is that patriarchy is very wary of a certain kind of sex which would undermine its power and profits. That, precisely, is sex in common, or “communal sex” in a small community were everyone knew everyone else intimately and socially, embedded in nature where there was no need for power or money, and hence no dependence on patriarchy. I can hear a thousand voices, shouting out a thousand objections that they’ve heard it before, and that is not how it is; and that what we’ve got now is how it’s always been, followed by the slamming of doors, shutting of windows and pulling down of shades.

Such minds have no understanding of history, much less of herstory. Need I add: “in my opinion”? Ok, add it. Natural sex is communal sex: that is the essence of my theology, which I have made bold to express here, much to the consternation of some and condemnation of others, although not openly stated. My thinking is highly nuanced and delicately balanced, and can be easily reduced to a gross, two-dimensional flatland that is not even skin-deep, by just calling it an orgy or free for all.

To counter that kind of reductionism, let me paint a picture of the kind of sex I’m referring to: sacred, multi-dimensional, natural, organic, healthy, fresh, refreshing, pure, clean, open, free, safe, secure, eternal, for all, pleasurable, delightful, joyful, wholesome, graceful, holy; and protected by theology, teachings, rituals, rites, rules, habits, ceremonies, orations, feasts, festivals, liturgies and natural cycles. And no, I did not copy or paste the lists from anywhere; they came out of my mind, such as it is.

To complete the picture, depressing as it is, I must mention the other side, overwhelmingly considered the only side in our cult culture: monotheism; circumcision; monogamy where one side controls the other, under the watchful eye of the state-church; parental training of children to be soldiers and workers; nuclear families as soft nuclear bombs; sex pets; sports fever; animal eateries; fake sex porn; block-chain-dead crytobit money mortuaries; sex slaves; the general hex on sex and the imperial division of love communities into couples and then into singles, who are alienated and miserable, and therefore consume more junk to enrich the junkies at the top.

Ok, ok, I hear you: I am not fair and I over-generalize; my defense is that all is fair in love and war, and we need generals if we are to win this war. But back to theology, and a summary conclusion. The Fathers provided a context for holiness but lost sight of nature’s wholeness. There’s a middle way between repress and excess. Recover a love language and restore a love culture. Love is a panacea, not a pollyanna; and a panorama, not a pornarama. We need a new beginning, not the same old sinning. Give us new words with that old time magic. Hallelujah. Do I hear an Amen?

Oh yes, ain‘t it awful?! And it was (and somewhere still is) forbidden, and still – – ! ! How come?! This is like with Denis‘ second law (after the first: to love and do it right): not to love animals, or if you love them, to do it by throwing them out into the wilderness – that is pretty clear, isn‘t it – and still people have cats and dogs, not to speak of moths, fleas, spiders – just terrible! No one respects the natural order where animals and men are different worlds „and never must they mix“, and also lazy evenings, good or sad memories, wishes, inner dialogues on one hand, and then on the other these wicked, disgusting, forbidden, not even natural (nor communal) but staged, invented, uh, pictures… or flix, as they say (thanks God no more wall paintings and bas-reliefs as they had in Pompei – but then Rome got destroyed, there they had it!) as if … no, I can‘t continue.

Dennis preaches for years already that if we all had plenty of good old lovely communal sex, things like pornography would get redundant and disappear – but you seem not to agree. Then, might it be that the illness persists because the patient steadfastly refuses to take the medicine?

Dennis, correction, my question should have read : What drives men to pedophilia ? i remember having the word in my mind that goes so powerfully against all natural feeling to write, and then wrote “pornography” by mistake…

bp, no, people can get on with pornography if they want, or communal sex, but not with child sexual molestation. And why be fatuous, communal sex, (is Dennis’ famous ruse to stir up indignation. He peppers everything up with it to raise the temperature, uses it, sex is a hot topic, still, after all these decades of sexual emancipation, licence, graphic pornography, yawn, but communal sex, how embarrassing.

Yes, I am a 42er, as well. Year of the (water) Horse. Southern Appalachia, U.S. of A. I love my moon, my mountains, and my rivers and creeks.

A commentary I read on the Year of the Water Horse, profiled me so accurately that it was truly amazing. Hmmmmm…. Interesting that in your short commentary, you mention green moon and the “green family of the sun” in association with the year 1305. I dont know that it is meaningful, but 1305 in Chinese astrology was a Year of the (green) Snake.

GrandmaR, nice to meet you here. Yeah, we seem to be horses and as Pisces and Cancer I’m familiar with this ‘green’ flowing element, so strong and fast advances seem to be our year label.

By the way, in a German booklet I red 1942 = fire-horse, be it like it will, I’m
contend.

Once I dreamed two black horses took me in the middle and started
skywards and dropped me to the uppermost storey of a skyscraper where I from outside stepped into a leading bunch of liars assembled … I spoke my verdict and gave my advice to the sweating central comedian pig … and left the room for the elevator.

As to deep-ruling ‘green’ Water-Venus of 12. 25. 1305, she is at 1,8° Taurus for 713 years now and will remain ruling our roots-feeling .

In this time we live in I only can take my reading out of my disciplined and trained intuition, with my projection as enemy.

In 100 years or 50 we will have a computerized ‘diary’ of these 1,8° Taurus
over 713 years and we will know about this ‘magic’ from our psycho-physical depth forcing us inconsciously to do voluntarily what it wants.

This green Venus and of all the other 39 places in the zodiac, where the gods superposed in the four Kings-conjunctions of Saturn+Jupiter,
father-god + son-god.

But my dear wife is in hospital, to much ibuprofen, without any stomach-protection. Stupid as a girl can be.

… and another …
Yuri Alyohin, Head of Tyumen Region’s Ministry of Emergency Situations, said, “The building belongs to the wholesale store where baby stuff and toys as well as furniture and clothes were sold. Fire brigades arrived to the scene at 22:20 (local), five minutes after the callout. The fire occurred in the far corner where warehouses were located. It was difficult to detect a source the fire.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TVbDgZMtW4

On Saker’s I have seen the the word “rant” assume a new position of global authority and validity, through his own proud, self-confessed “rants”.
Rant :

verb
1.
speak or shout at length in an angry, impassioned way.
“she was still ranting on about the unfairness of it all”

Long live the rant, the vigorous tirade, the angry trumpeting young man, freedom of speech and the verbal onslaught !

KING HENRY V :
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

Orthodox Easter starts tomorrow, although Sunday is the day:
I have a video to post, although officially not related, but the sections regarding Putin really apply to Easter:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7m26G0WpB4

Thank you Ioan, it is beautiful.
BTW:
For those who do not know: Irene Papas played the widow in Zorba the Greek, and arguably the most talented Greek actress.
Vangielis (this is how it’s pronounced) on the other hand, in my opinion he is the greatest composer (not only in Greece) of modern days. Also, Demis Roussos started his career in the Vangielis’s group. Mithodea is probably one of his greatest works, every time I listen to that music I can see Greek hoplites marching in classic Greek dancing step.
Happy Easter

from almasdar news: Those of us with a suspicious mind might be puzzled by this

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:40 A.M.) – The Jordanian regime has asked the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to delay their upcoming Dara’a offensive in order to convince the rebel forces to reconcile with the government, a military source told Al-Masdar tonight.

The source added that the Syrian Army has agreed to respect Jordan’s request and will once again attempt to hold reconciliation talks with the militant groups in Dara’a.

Previously, the Syrian Army and Russian military sent a delegation to Dara’a to negotiate a reconciliation deal that was similar to the East Ghouta agreement; however, the rebels rejected offer.

The rebels then released a statement rejecting the offer and vowed to continue their fight against the Syrian government.

I must issue An Apologia Cryptographicum for neglecting my blockchain duties in this Cafe.

There were reasons for the inattention, of course:

1) I’m with Dennis in judging our physical interconnectivity to be of higher priority than peer to peer contracts over the internet. So I have taken quiet advantage of the truce we seem to have arrived at in regard to OBOR to weigh in on a rather esoteric Sino-Judaic aspect of that whole issue, bringing specific individuals and their differing perspectives to bear on the matter, here:

Mundo might take notice, as there is a Bavarian angle that an Astrologist find relevant to the stars and unseen planets above.

Sorry Kent, I agree with you: I can’t handle the “Can’t Pick A Handle Crowd” when I know damned well who Anonymous really is. But in that case….I think it’s someone new! Because that one didn’t attack my Chinese …..or Jewish friends.

2) I haven’t had a chance to debrief my film-maker friend who was at the Big Event in Puerto Rico a couple of weeks ago and right this moment he’s at another Crypto event in Los Angeles. But we’ll connect soon, and you’ll get “the inside poop”. I mean scoop.

3) While DL and I have a truce going in regard to trains, I see that such is not yet the case with either blocks or chains,of freedom (nominalists are slow to pick up on clear ironies and underlying realities that might be countervaling to the superficial names of things….) and he’s still dogging my past crypto-posts with yellow journalistic spurts like “____________” I know I spotted another gratuitous jab somewhere here….but it is so well concealed in the Condensed Sexual History of the World that I couldn’t find it in 5 whole minutes of searching….to douse it with a rinse of fresh water. Pray for rain.

4) But despite the hazards crypto posts still run, the next Cafe Shall Not Disappoint! Bring it on!

“I know damned well who Anonymous really is. But in that case….I think it’s someone new!”

That makes about as much sense as the new social credit system. Having said that you will probably enjoy its implementation soon after the exploitation at the Foxconn factories “lifting hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty” (that always gets an Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness “lepretard” chuckle here).

One tweet wonders if the author has crystal meth coated cornflakes for breakfast…

But I strongly suspect that question isn’t as outlandish as it seems: the psychosis of the Western elites – especially in the US and UK – very likely does have at least a partial pharmacological origin…

Subscribe to Vesti News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa8M… A groundbreaking new film by Andrei Kondrashev. “Putin” part 2 dives into depth about the man who we all hear so much about, but who we know so little about..………

This clever murder plot would have worked out but for an overly intelligent assistant and Lieutenant Colombo intervening.
A Stitch in Crime | Season 2 Episode 6 | Full Episode | Columbohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2cpo94zkrE

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